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The Aish Al-Saraya Incident and Its Amusing Chronicles
BY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL WINNER & THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONSHORTLISTED AUTHOR HAMMOUR ZIADA.
Narrated by a fleeing official of Sudan’s dissolved ruling party following a military coup, this biting political satire unfolds across a tense, high-stakes journey. The central conflict erupts over a seemingly trivial dispute: who possesses the authentic recipe for the traditional “Aish Al-Saraya” dessert. As the argument absurdly escalates into a formal civic investigation, Hammour Ziada crafts a razor-sharp, darkly hilarious allegory for the destructive power struggles and ideological collapse that plunged a nation into conflict. Fusing sharp wit with deeply observant prose, The Aish Al-Saraya Incident is a brilliant, unsparing dissection of authoritarian hypocrisy and political absurdity.
Hammour Ziada
Hammour Ziada is a Sudanese novelist who has published
three novels and two short story collections. His novel The
Longing of the Dervish (2014) won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal
for Literature and was shortlisted for the International Prize
for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2015. The novel was translated
into English and Persian. He also wrote Sleeping at the Foot
of the Mountain, which was made into a film that won several
international prizes, including the Venice Festival Lion of the
Future award.
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